Jean-Pierre Colin has joined the team of Chatham Rock Phosphate Ltd. as strategy consultant to Chris Castle, chief executive officer, and to the board of directors of the company.
Mr. Colin brings to Chatham Rock Phosphate his 40 years of investment banking and corporate governance knowledge as a strategy consultant to numerous high-profile and publicly listed clean technology and international mining companies.
Mr. Colin serves on the board of directors and as corporate secretary, chair of the audit committee, chair of the compensation committee, and chair of the corporate governance committee of dynaCERT Inc., a public clean tech carbon emission reduction technology international company, which aims to reduce global diesel fuel consumption with its leading proprietary technology.
Mr. Colin also serves as a director of Sego Exploration Inc., developing an ethical copper-gold porphyry deposit in British Columbia, Canada, and is a strategy consultant to the chairman of BlackRock Metals Inc., a feasibility-level project in Canada of high-purity iron ore, titanium and vanadium, using new modern technology to reduce its carbon footprint.
Mr. Colin has previously served as a member of the board of directors of many very successful junior mining companies, including Pelangio Mines Inc., the original founder of Detour Gold Mines Inc., one of Canada’s largest gold mining companies; Virginia Gold Inc., which sold its Eleonor project to Goldcorp Inc. for over $1-billion (now Newmont Goldcorp Corp.), NGT’s largest mine in the province of Quebec, Canada; Premier Gold Mines Ltd., which owns several mines in the United States and is developing its Hardrock project in Canada along with its partner Centerra Gold Inc.; and Wolfden Resources, which sold its assets to Zinifex for $500-million in a friendly takeover.
Mr. Colin brings to Chatham Rock Phosphate his 30 years of experience as an international securities industry executive, a mining financier, and merger and acquisition specialist, as well as his last 10 years as a strategy consultant to numerous public companies, worldwide. As a high-profile investment banker throughout his career, he managed several extremely successful mid-cap corporate finance departments, including at J.P. Colin Securities, Deacon Capital Corp. and Octagon Capital Corp., and was a senior officer managing international corporate finance clients at Richardson Greenshields of Canada and Desjardins Securities.
Mr. Colin holds an MBA from Ivey, Western University, a civil law degree from the University of Ottawa, a certificate in comparative law from the University of Manitoba, and a diploma of collegial studies in engineering and ecology from McGill University, and is a member of the bar of the Province of Quebec in Canada.
Mr. Colin stated: “Chatham Rock Phosphate presents a valuable lifetime opportunity to develop one of the world’s purest sources of rock phosphate, so crucial to the fertilizer industry for this century and so important to the maintenance of an uncontaminated global food supply chain. I am very pleased to be working with an experienced CEO like Chris Castle and with my other environmentally conscious colleagues at Chatham Rock Phosphate. We have the chance to develop a unique untainted source of phosphate, which is a much needed clean source of the world’s sustainable global phosphate supply.”
Mr. Castle stated: “J.P. Colin brings to Chatham Rock Phosphate the corporate governance expertise and the strategy advice that is so important to our company at this crucial stage. His knowledge as an M&A professional and as a seasoned mining financier, combined with his legal background, are essential requirements that we can greatly appreciate in our progress going forward as an innovator in the mining of Rock Phosphate. I look forward to working side by side with J.P. Colin in making our company a huge success in the years to come.”
About Chatham Rock Phosphate Ltd.
Chatham Rock Phosphate is the custodian of New Zealand’s only material resource of ultralow-cadmium, environmentally friendly pastoral phosphate fertilizer.
The resource represents one of New Zealand’s most valuable mineral assets and is of huge strategic significance because phosphate is essential to maintain New Zealand’s high agricultural productivity.
Chatham takes very seriously the responsibility vested in it through its granted mining permit to use the world’s best knowledge and technology to safely extract this resource to help sustainably feed the world.
